City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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9th January 1769 - 27th December 1769

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Wm Slater< no role >

John Arnold< no role > of Leg Court Peter Street St. John the Evangelist
Westminster Bricklayers Labourer on his Oath says that he
and the Deced were London a Cart with Bricks at Mr. Dixons
Wharf on Milbank, that when the Cart was loaded the Deced
went up with the Cart he put in a Screen for Mortar and
Standing with one leg on the Wheel and the other leg in the
Cart it so happened that the said Cart being on a Stoping Ground
and the props taken away, the Cart by its weight went down
the Declinity and the Wheel jammed his Thigh between that &
the Wall of the Wharf

Euphemia Lumesdon< no role > a Night Nurse in Westminster Hospital says
that the Night after the Deced came into the Hospital she heard
him say a Court loaded with Bricks had run over his Night, the
deced said he desired the Carter to Shop, but that the Carter wound
not, and further said that the People standing by called to the
Carter to stop saying if he went on he would kill the Man

but the Carter went on, Deponent says she has Several times
heard the Deced say that he thought his accident was owning to
the Carelessness of the Carter

Euphemia Lumesdon< no role >

Elisha Aldridge< no role > a Soldier of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards of leg Court Peter Street, his Colonels name Thornton
on his Oath says that he was assisting the 13th. of July last
at the loading of a Cart with Bricks at a Wharf by Mr.
Pearce's Brewhouse on Milbank with one John Arnold< no role > and
the Deced, that when the Cart was loaded Deponent saw Deced
get up on the Wheel with one leg and put the other leg in
the Cart in Order to receive a Shreon for Mortor which was to
he Put into the Cart, and which Deponent had ready to give
him up, at which time the Cart went backwards and the
Deced fell on the Ground from off the Wheel and the Wheel
bruised his thing, that the Deced called out to the CarterDeponent
to Stop, as did the Deponent but says that he believed the
Carter did not hear by reason that there was a great Noise
of Coppersmiths Workings at Mr. Pearces Brewhouse adjoining to




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